Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Unabridged! When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering affects of oxygen deprivation. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous decent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers wer ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank, Anne Frank
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her f ...Show more
Toy Fights by Paterson D Staff
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A future classic of memoir by one of the greatest writers at work today'A classic of its kind.' - William Boyd'Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant.' - Scotsman'A work of dazzling craft.' - Times Literary Supplement'A memoir in a million.' - Sunday TimesDon Paterson was born in D ...Show more
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A Times Best Music Book of 2023*'Glorious! I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Self deprecating and refreshingly honest' - Sunday Times'Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend'Hilarious and so emotionally true' -Cameron Crowe'Taupin' ...Show more
Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary by Nina Stibbe
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' - Meg Mason'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' - Bonnie Garmus'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David NichollsTwenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (D ...Show more
A Man Named Dave (#3) by Dave Pelzer
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The concluding volume of Dave Pelzer's million-copy bestselling memoir. 'I don't blame others for my problems. I stand on my own. And one day, you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself.' These words were eighteen-year-old Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother, a woman who had a ...Show more
Eggs or Anarchy: The Remarkable Story of the Man Tasked with the Impossible: to Feed a Nation at War by William Sitwell
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
One of the great untold stories of World War Two--about the man responsible for feeding the people of Britain during the war--written by award-winning food writer and restaurant critic William Sitwell. Eggs or Anarchy reveals the heroic tale of how Lord Woolton, Minister for Food, really fed Britain ...Show more
The Choice by Edith Eger
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
THE AWARDWINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateIn 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimagin ...Show more
Wool Away, Boy!: A Ripping Memoir of Life in the Shearing Sheds by Alan Blunt
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A firsthand account of the shearing sheds of the 1950s and 60s. The son of a shearer, Alan Blunt spent his teenage years in the woolsheds of the 1950s and 60s. As his father laboured, Alan would imagine himself opening the batting for Australia or boxing for the world middleweight championship, only to ...Show more
Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation by Hannah Gadsby
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 17
Gadsby's unique stand-up special Nanette was a viral success that left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her ability to create both tension and laughter in a single moment. But while her worldwide fame might have looked like an overnight sensation, her path from open mic to the global s ...Show more
The Secret Heart: John le Carre: An Intimate Memoir by Suleika Dawson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life John le Carré led a life entirely constructed of secrets – not just in his first career, as a British spy and agent runner during the height of the Cold War or in his second, as a world-renow ...Show more
The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts by Edmund De Waal
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de W ...Show more